Homer
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How to Watch While Being Watched: Aisha Sabatini Sloan’s Borealis
The experience, rather than linear, is borealian.
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In Protest of a Body that Refuses to End
All I want is to feed myself like a person who wants to be fed.
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Frenetic, Excitable, and Direct: Sylvie Baumgartel’s Song of Songs
This poem lets her—the speaker and Baumgartel—be too much.
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Little What to Read When
A monthly illustrated What to Read When for the young readers in our lives!
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Visual Storytelling: A Conversation with Marnie Galloway
Marnie Galloway discusses her award-winning comic IN THE SOUNDS AND SEAS.
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The Read Along: Neda Semnani
I picked up The Odyssey because I wanted to read about wanders and refugees. A story about a man who takes a decade to get home and is on a quest for safety seemed like a good place to start.
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Just Wing It
Robert Minto examines selections from Homer’s Iliad to discover why some language and rhetoric misses its mark while other characters’ “winging words” achieve their purpose.
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The Last Poems I Loved: John Berryman’s Dream Songs #265 and #279
I have a tendency to read difficult books when my life is difficult.
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Repeat the Past, Break the Future
A god does not intervene. A mortal dies. Things happen repeatedly, then suddenly they differ. That rhythm of action, which combines repetition with asymmetry, is the rhythm of Homeric narrative and of the Homeric style. And it is designed to…
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The Rumpus Interview with Will Chancellor
Debut novelist Will Chancellor talks about successful satire, destroying drafts of A Brave Man Seven Storeys Tall to get to the finished version, and the advantages of fiction over competing media.
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Memorial: A Version of Homer’s Iliad by Alice Oswald
Brian Spears reviews Alice Oswald’s Memorial A Version of Homer’s Iliad today in Rumpus Poetry.
